U+8428 "萨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8428 "萨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, used primarily in writing Chinese. Pronounced "sà" in Mandarin, it is a simplified Chinese character that corresponds to the traditional character "薩". This ideograph commonly appears in loanword transliterations, such as in "菩萨" (púsà) meaning "bodhisattva" in Buddhism, or in place names like "拉萨" (Lāsà) for Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Its structure combines the radical for grass (艹) with a phonetic component, reflecting its role in representing foreign or religious terms within the Chinese writing system.